Gideon Tomlinson

Gideon Tomlinson (31 December 1780-8 October 1854) was a member of the US House of Representatives (DR-CN) from 4 March 1819 to 3 March 1827 (succeeding Thomas Scott Williams and preceding David Plant), Governor of Connecticut from 2 May 1827 to 2 March 1831 (succeeding Oliver Wolcott Jr. and preceding John Samuel Peters), and a US Senator (NR) from 4 March 1831 to 3 March 1837 (succeeding Calvin Willey and preceding Perry Smith).

Biography
Gideon Tomlinson was born in Stratford, Connecticut in 1780, and he became a lawyer in 1807. In 1817, he entered politics as clerk of the State House of Representatives, and he attended the state's 1818 constitutional convention. He went on to serve in the US House of Representatives from 1819 to 1827, as Governor from 1827 to 1831, and in the US Senate from 1831 to 1837. He died in Fairfield in 1854.